Thursday, February 28, 2008

Things That Made Me Happy...

Well, at least when Geoff Johns writes Hercules out of character, it's amusing!

Jaime Reyes, naked and bleeding, escaping an alien spaceship while making a Treasure of the Sierra Madre joke.

Well, I have no idea what Morrison's jibbering about in Batman, but he gets points for referencing both Batman's hallucination in Robin Dies At Dawn and the old story where Commissioner Gordon got demoted to beat cop.

Ray Palmer in costume. I bet you forgot that he's always wearing it and it only becomes visible when he shrinks. PU!

The brick-like subtlety which with LIGHTNING and Jakeem THUNDER are being thrown together. Oooo, maybe there's a storm a-comin'!

Amazing how Discworld Genetics are at work in the pages of JSA. Black Lightning's daughter has inherited a version of his powers that he gained from a device years after she was conceived and during a lengthy period of time when he wasn't a part of her life. Ah, to be Geoff Johns and only worry about fixing other people's continuity gaffes...

Baal, I think current DC "science" holds that Black Lightning always had the metagene; exposure to said device merely activated it. So he passed on the gene to his kids, and some phenomenon, perhaps exposure to his powers or the Dominators' metagene bomb in "Invasion", activated them.

This still doesn't explain why no previous writer ever mentioned he had kids.

Black Lightning's daughter has inherited a version of his powers that he gained from a device years after she was conceived and during a lengthy period of time when he wasn't a part of her life.

The same can be said of the junior Icicle. I always thought that, as a toddler, he wandered into his dad's lab and spilled something on himself, resulting in his powers (and becoming a father myself only reinforced this belief). To find out that he was born with the power stretches credibility.

I think by "dynamite 1", you mean "Project Superpowers #1", published by Dynamite, and yes, it's very good. The 0 issue came out a week or three back, and It really impressed me. The marvel series "The Twelve" is similar, but i'm not feeling it just yet with that one.

Blue Beetle is just about perfect. We've seen "kid takes over an established superhero legacy" before with both Green Lantern and Firestorm. Blue Beetle feels like it's being done right. The other two examples seemed forced to me, as if the power set was all that would be required to be a hero. Jaime Reyes is a hero with or without abilities, and the creators have shown us why. Jaime's parents, his friends, even his sister have demonstrated where Jaimies heroism comes from.

I read Blue Beetle - best series I've ever read. Period. I'm ready to start forcing it into the hands of other transit passengers to convert more readers. If fringe candidate supporters can get away with it, surely some quality work will be accepted, as well.

As far as kids having their powers, what about Wildcat's kid just happening to mutate into a wildcat. How lame is that?

Well, that one can actually be explained, albeit in a supremely comic-booky way. Wasn't it stated a few years ago that Ted Grant has "nine lives" as the result of a magic spell put on him sometime in the 40s? Blame it on that. It's magic; you don't have to explain it.

In case no one has mentioned it lately, I really appreciate your mythology references.

Really; why aren't you reading Blue Beetle? From now, I will only speak to people who are reading Blue Beetle...

I believe I have yet to buy an issue of the new Blue Beetle, but I see that they have been collected in a few volumes. So rather than risk excommunication, I'm considering trying it. Did the supposed "wonderful"-ness of the book start with issue no. 1 or is this a more recent phenomenon?

Baal "Black Lightning's daughter has inherited a version of his powers that he gained from a device years after she was conceived and during a lengthy period of time when he wasn't a part of her life."

I'm blaming The Wizard for that, too, same as Black Canary Junior, Wildcat Junior, and Icicle Junior. Unless that theory's been debunked in some story I haven't read. Wiz is too supervillain old school to let go of a really really bad idea.

""Project Superpowers #1", published by Dynamite, and yes, it's very good."